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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] fma965:
Re: [APP][DEV][ALPHA] XPMB -- A XMB-styled launcher for our Play's

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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Please use PM's, let's keep this thread clean.

@fma965 can you send me a logcat of the error?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ch3mn3y:
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I change ony board as zeus (on pac there was empty place) and now have only close error. Dont need to change product

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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] devi59:
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A little off topic, but have you seen retroarc in the store? It has all the emulators built into one app and its free. Maybe you could get with that dev and then you wouldn't have to code for separate emulators, you could just links to that app or something. Its xperia optimized too. I haven't played much on it but it seems to work and may save coding time?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] devi59:
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Here is my info. I just get a FC. Could be because I'm on a MIUI based rom . But I don't know how that all works.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Updated, now simply checks for the presence of /system/framework/xperiaplaycertified.jar to stop relying in build.prop

If anyone gets FC, please send me a PM with a logcat, thanks.

It should not be a ROM problem, though.

About the emulators, it will be modular so it can support many emulators in the future.

Also, I found a way to do the UI functions needed from ICS/JB in GB so compatibility for it should be coming soon.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] devi59:
Well Rozen, I don't know what you did (I'm a network guy, not a programmer) but it's working now on my phone. So the check change you did makes it work fine on Turbo Ui jellybean. Keep it up!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] clivejefferies:
Re: [APP][DEV][ALPHA] XPMB -- A XMB-styled launcher for our Play's

Great start.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] jayact~:
Great work thus far! Out of curiosity, have you thought about enabling touch controls? I'd find it easier to use this as a permanent launcher if I could keep my phone closed when I don't plan on gaming.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Yeah, At first it had some touch behavior when in portrait mode, but I focused in getting landscape working and locked the orientation to it because it's the main part of the app.

I plan to make a grid layout for app submenu too. Let me take note of all these suggestions before I forget them :p

This week I was on code hiatus because of my last week @work before vacations. yay! :victory:

Thanks for your comments guys!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] hangingwithsnoopy:
Thanks

This looks really exciting, will try them on a JXD S602 and Yinlips YDPG19

They are both android 4.04 so should work?

This is exactly what I was looking for for the JXD in particular as the touch screen is resistive and practically useless but is great for eumulation.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Actually it's locked to xperia play devices, but you can download the source and remove the check.

Apart from that, it should work as long as the device runs 4.0.3 but at this moment wouldn't work if the keycodes aren't the same as the XPlay's keypad, because I haven't implemented touch functionality yet.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] darkharbinger81:
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Sick I love it
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Gianmark:
It's very interesting, but I can't install it with Astro File Manager.

EDIT: Aw, It doesn't work on GB.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Well, I'm dropping GB support from now until further notice, there are so much UI functions to implement that would make this project excessively hard to maintain.

As for the status of the project, I'm optimizing code everywhere, so it'll take some more time before the next public dev build release.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Updated. Finally, merged submenus with main menu in one main layout, made the icons a bit larger, added NES submenu and a rather rudimentary music player that scans music inside /sdcard/Music or whathever path Environment.DIRECTORY_MUSIC says it is..

I limited the music player to list only the first 10 files it founds because it isn't optimized and with more than 10 tracks it gets very slow. I for one had 96 tracks and it practically made the framerate drop to 1 frame every 2 secs :silly:

You can seek in intervals of 1 sec pressing left or right in the gamepad while in the music player.

Next: implement themes for the menu.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] CyberScopes:
Re: [APP][DEV][ALPHA] XPMB -- A XMB-styled launcher for our Play's

nice update. it now recognises my apps and music :)

/==(CyberScopes)==\
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Updated... again :)

Optimized a bit the animations, some little UI improvements, now relies more on animations and layouts than in pure code, music submenus now correctly utilizes MediaStore to retrieve media in external sdcard (i.e. /sdcard/Music), so now it loads blazingly fast :good:

Don't know why, but the "current time" label of the music player dissapeared somehow, but this just remembered me that I hate RelativeLayouts, they mess up anything you put in them even when correctly set the element's relatives :p

Now when you seek trough the currently playing track it will skip in intervals of 2.5s instead of the old 1s interval.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ch3mn3y:
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Installed and have it only in portrait mode.

Everything other works. Just this.

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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
hmmm... it should work in any orientation, and as I haven't implemented touch, you should open the gamepad and use the D-pad to move as if you were in landscape mode

Maybe you have disabled auto rotation? Anyone have this problem too?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ch3mn3y:
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In older versions i had only landscape. Autorotation on fo 0', 90', and 270'.

Gamepad is working like it should.

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[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] clivejefferies:
Re: [APP][DEV][ALPHA] XPMB -- A XMB-styled launcher for our Play's

Can you use version numbers or dates?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
At last, updated. Got extremely busy past week, but here it is, with new features :)

Now testing some touch functionality (for now only in the Music submenu) that is, now you can scroll up and down in the list or start playing the selected track by touching it! :D

Now L and R shoulders changes tracks too (L = prev, R = next).

Current version is Crateria-0.5.48 (build 20130209+1253). That means I finally started using version numbers to ease bug identification, although there's no bugtracker at this moment nor I commit to googlecode between versions.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] chabbe11:
Dude, this app would definitely come in handy but i can't install it due to the fact that it doesn't support GB. Can't you look into this and make this app support 2.3 for us poor suckers that don't want to leave GB?

It is looking really good, reminds me of the good old days when i had my PSP.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] poo-tang:
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+1 This app/launcher looks great but as 80%+ of play users use GB its only good for a select few that dont mined game compatibility issues :(. If developer ever wants to interest the masses or be able to sell his product, he will have to consider GB support.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] CloudShepherd:
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Usage would go up exponentially if you added GB support. I know that if I could have it on GB, it would be my daily driver
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] CrypticRook:
Re: [APP][DEV][ALPHA] XPMB -- A XMB-styled launcher for our Play's

Hey can you post a link to the wiki?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ch3mn3y:
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Thanks for update. Now it works in portrait and landscape.

But i have a question:

For opening camera from launcher submenu i need camera.apk? Coz i there is no camera.apk in pacman rom and im using custom apps from market (gb camera mod and ics camera) and getting whole launcher fc after trying to start.

I think that its apk fc coz i had it with search too, but after installing google search from market it works.

Is there possibility to change default app in ur launcher?

Everything other works. Or maybe everythung i tried.

BTW. Where I should copy my games (nintendo etc., from games menu) to make them visible in launcher. And is ther any method to add "normal" android games, like in official XPlay Games app?

Sent using tf300t - stock JellyBean (docked/nonrooted)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sewer56lol:
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I'd love to use this on my s3 :)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Wow! many interesting comments, thank you!

Maybe I can neglect a bit the touch support implementing phase towards GB compatibility, but it will take me some time, I though it at first, but coding with SDK version >= 15 was easier. If the community wants it so much, then I think this takes priority.

I tested it on my new ST15 and then I realized that it looks awesome even when it doesn't fully support touch :D

About the camera issue, it can be changed, but after I implement custom menu layout, because I was testing the feature, it works, but I need to code the actual layout editor, of course, from within the app itself. So it's sort of 'hardcoded' at this moment.

About the ROMs, the app in the first startup (after you open the submenu) it creates a 'GBA' or 'NES' directory inside the sdcard where you can put the ROMs, the names and info are read from included ROMCenter 3.7.1 xml 'databases'; you must have installed Gameboid for GBA and Nesoid for NES at this moment to play them, but in the future I will add support for more emulators or even integrate one or some of these many-in-one emulators out there :good:

About the wiki, there are no wiki at this moment, but when the first beta launches, I will create one along the bugtracker

So, maybe in a week there will be an update as I look into the GB compatibility once again.

Thank you again guys!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sewer56lol:
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Looking forward till a touch version so I can use it on my S3.

Currently it force crashes on S3 (Seeing Nothing - Using a 4.2.1 Custom ROM, might try on 4.1.2)

But it works great on my play :)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] CloudShepherd:
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CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE IT ON GB:D:D:D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
@sewer56lol: it crashed because everything is adapted to run with XP's specs so resources for other phones (like xhdpi-sized ones) aren't included, so it will crash (hence the device lock), and I slipped that version with device check disabled :p

Although it ran fine on my mdpi-sized ST15a, I don't know what will happen with devices other than the XP.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] poo-tang:
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Just tested it on an Xperia S LT26i and must say it looks great. Cant wait for GB support on play. And when finally perfected on my other devices too.

Will be one of the first ready with my $ when you manage to get to Google store:)

Works great on my Sony tab S with daul shock 3 pad as well (transitions are smooth) but does not fit the screen understandable as not made for it yet.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Wow... just... wow, I haven't expected to see it running in a device with a bigger screen than the XP :)

Heh, it looks tiny in the tab S :p

Don't know why but this makes me want to continue this project even more! :D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sewer56lol:
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Thanks for the info earlier :) I just ran it on my S3 at 240 DPI and it worked rather fine. (Except that it was cornered top left like in other guy's screenshot but it just doesn't adapt to resolutions yet.)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sewer56lol:
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Here's how it looks on the S3

Screen cast is a rubbish screenshot taker on 4.2 and native screen shooting is broken in my ROM for now.

Lol this looks amazing with Phase Beam Live Wallpaper.

(It inverted colours?!)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DakuKinguSupaida:
This is brilliant!

I haven't tested it because my Xperia Play is unrooted and only 2.3.4 but I've been trying to recreate the XMB menu but I can't I really want a XMB menu for my XPlay. I wish you continue on with this project because I think everyone who owns a Xperia Play dreamed or thought this ''Wouldn't it be so cool if the menu looked like it did on my [Insert Sony Device with XMB]?''

I hope to God that you continue with this brilliant project and that you eventually do update it for Stock 2.3 XPlay users.

When PPSSPP is complete and so is this launcher, I swear, I will sell my PSP-3000. But I hope you don't stop on this project.:) :good:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] chabbe11:
Really awesome!

As poo-tang wrote earlier, I will also be the first to donate some $$$ or to some marketing if I can run this. Very glad to read about the priority change, and that you will start with the coding for Gingerbread =)) Keep ut the really great work!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Yeah, I though of dropping GB compatibility many times before, because there are so much functions missing like scaling, alphablending, and many others that I need to reimplement, it even crossed my mind to use GLSurface or even SurfaceView but I really like learning more about android so coding is the best way to do it, no matter how much time it'll take :p

Android SDK said to me: "you're on your own if you still want to use SDK level 10" :silly:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DakuKinguSupaida:
Please don't drop Gingerbread, because I and many others who don't use custom ROMs would love to use this launcher because we use many devices such as PSP, PS3 and other gaming devices that is why we bought the Xperia Play, MOGA, iControllPad and other devices such as Gameclip. I myself have tried recreating the XMB menu with ADW launcher and PS3 icon pack by Mr.Millionare and it was horrible! Please, please, please don't take down Gingerbread from your launcher. You're project is brilliant so far and within one month you've done so much, you've gained so much fans that are willing to pay for this.

I would pay but I'm only 13 and I don't have a credit card but I would happily enjoy this launcher and if it has a few flaws, I'll still be happy to take it. But please, don't drop Gingerbread, even if you have to make cuts, so what? Still an XMB launcher. I think you'll be done within 2 months because you've done alot in one month.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] smokerman:
wow..this project is something..if you can get this working sure you gonna make history for xperia play users..:D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Wow, it went faster than I expected, I had to write some wrappers and overriders to 'backport' the missing functions in GB, but still need to finish animator functions, test and refine everything on a GB ROM (*looking at my brother's XP*), but compatibility for it is really near.

Another thing I was thinking is that now that I have a XMini (bought it recently), I can reflash my XP to whatever ROM I need to develop on :)

Now everyone can get their hopes up again :D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] CloudShepherd:
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What I like to hear my man!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] chabbe11:
Really great news =) Then the public can expect this within a few days (?)

Contact me if you would like to have a testpilot, then I could report on how well it acts and what is needed to be fixed.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Just a little update. I got faster FPS somehow (but really appreciated!) but am still getting problems with some layouts.

Maybe this night or tomorrow there will be a new apk to test :good:

Here, attached is a teaser :) (Note the different font in the clock because I'm using stock ROM now)

EDIT: Wow, it desn't want to do what I tell it to do, let me tame this beast first :silly:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DakuKinguSupaida:
So, you're Tom or Mod Father from Xperia Gamer? If you are, how to I speed up Jet Set Radio
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] abdel12345:
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Were you able to get this working good?

rom: extreme ics betav3

kernel: turbo v3
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Zerosuit Connor:
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After trying this on my play I was wondering if it would work at all on my HP touchpad, any chance of a touch input one? Or multi DPI layout?

Sent from my HP Touchpad >:D
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ch3mn3y:
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I think there wont betouchpad or multi dpi as this launcher is especially for XPlay (if on other devices works u can use it).

There will be only play pad support and touch.

Sent using tf300t - stock JellyBean (docked/nonrooted)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sewer56lol:
It works on any device, just change your DPI to 240, I got the same result as you on your HD Touchpad on the S3 a couple of pages ago.

Touch controls would be great.

Edit : What is this wallpaper/?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] sadiq23:
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Works great on my XPERIA P but with game keyboard, touch screen would be better!!!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Last week I got very busy so I couldn't update the app, but there it is, finally, a working GB version, yay! :victory:

Well, at least the music submenu :p

The enormous progressbar used in GB looks somewhat weird, but it does its work :)

You can test it only in XPlays because I put again the device lock while I implement full touch capabilities.

Build string is Crateria-0.5.336 (build 20130221+1100) (yeah, there were 250+ builds in between :silly:)

Enjoy!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] chabbe11:
Splendid work my friend, truly! Have installed this, and it is partly working. The app is rather slow (my overall impression), i have received several FC while trying to open the music sub (or all other subs in general). The clock is not centered in the top right corner, but in the top middle.

Overall, I'm really glad to see that you have implemented GB support. At least now, we can all follow your progress and be a part of this. I will happily follow this and update to every new version, if you ever need a tester - you just PM me and we'll have a talk =)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DakuKinguSupaida:
Kinda slow and force closes alot, still has me excited.

I'm actually so EXCITED!

It's brilliant, yet it has a good few flaws.

List of flaws/bugs (so far):

1.It's kinda slow.

2.It force closes ALOT, I mean alot (eg: go to music, force close. Go to all application, force close again.)

Things that annoy me personally (no offencOe to your app, it's brilliant):

1. Application doesn't have a 'n' at the end (not your fault, probably you had a limit on characters)

2. I can't find my normal apps that are Xperia Play Optimized.

Things I'd like to see be done/released in another version:

1. Being a bit quicker and doesn't FC as often.

2. An option to catagorise games.

3. Option menu that we can kinda personalize like the PS3's theme and font and things like that.

The best way to go in my opinion is release TWO different XPMB versions that have little differences.

You don't have to actually do any of the requests, I just am happy that I have a XMB on my Xperia Play.

Soon, PPSSPP will be a ''good enough, not perfect but still gut enough''

Then I'll have the Xperia Playstation
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Yeah, it feels slow in the main menu because I forgot to set the animation timers from 500ms to 150ms, I was testing scaling and alpha so I needed the animations to be slower, actually I have fixed them in my current build, so next time I upload it here it should be quicker.

I had no FC's in music sub, but i'm fixing them in the other subs right now.

Yeah, alpha-state apps does FC a lot in phones (that may be running custom ROMs) other than the developing one (it uses stock 2.3.4)

Thanks for your comments!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] CloudShepherd:
Re: [APP][DEV][ALPHA] XPMB -- A XMB-styled launcher for our Play's

When I open up music subs, it says I have no tracks, same with roms and such. Is there a specific directory I need to create?
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ch3mn3y:
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I have all music files in Music foldrr and they all are shown

Sent using tf300t - stock JellyBean (docked/nonrooted)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] RozenTensai:
Yeah, it uses android's media provider but filters the results by using the ones found under Environment.DIRECTORY_MUSIC to prevent unwanted media (like ringtones, voice records, even game fx/music and so on...) to be displayed, and have more PSP-like behavior (maybe in the future there will be an option to filter by selected directories).

Typically this directory is under /sdcard/Music.

For ROMs the app automatically creates the directories under /sdcard (like /sdcard/GBA and /sdcard/NES)
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] CloudShepherd:
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I don't understand why it doesn't work for music, but I know how to fix the Rom problem haha
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] fcb-1899:
This makes me want to fix my broken xperia play! Looks incredible!! Awesome job, keep it up!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Mega5657:
Can't wait to test it out on stock GB! I clicked thanks! =D